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From: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
To: Hui Zhu <teawater@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Get new GDB for UBUNTU from launchpad PPA
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>>>>> ">" == Hui Zhu <teawater@gmail.com> writes:

>> 3.  The package is named "gdb-7.3" and "gdb-trunk", and the GDB that
>> installed to the system is named "gdb-7.3" and "gdb-7.3.5".  So it
>> will not affect the GDB that you install in before.  You can use the
>> old one directly if you got some trouble with the new one.

I think it is a mistake to call it "7.3" -- a version which has not been
released.

Distros that ship modified or early releases modify the --version output
to show something different, e.g.:

    opsy. gdb --version
    GNU gdb (GDB) Fedora (7.1-34.fc13)

Please do the same with your releases.

Tom